Apparently, the hate mongering isn't restricted to America.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 4:15am

And yet, the commonality seems to be that pesky Christian connection.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041210/stage_nm/religion_britain_blasphemy_dc&e=5

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 4:25am

omg theatre is art....art is opionions....opinionions r freedom of speech......get over it people!!!!!!!!!!

[paradox_error]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:03am

*smacks head on desk*

Imagine what the world would be like if there was no religious fanatacism...

*sigh*

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:08am

Christianity and religion have nothing to do with it. These people have the right to protest in the same way everyone else does. In addition, this is not new. Billy Graham came out very strongly against Jesus Christ Superstar when it was first produced years ago.

If people were protesting a play about war in Iraq, this thread wouldn't even exist. Please look at your own level of tolerance before you go accusing other people.

[amasis]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:17am

Well. Some people are just contemptibly narrow in their outlook. I think that's the common attribute in these cases; not the religion. Updated On: 12/21/04 at 08:17 AM

[Sister George]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:43am

Unfortunately not just idiotic Christians....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4112105.stm

This was much more shocking and frankly a very depressing day for British theatre.


(and if we are to discuss tolerance how many wars has theatre begun and how many have been based upon religion?)

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:47am

I must say I love your screen name. Is it Sister George as in The Killing Of?

Though I've not viewed it in a long while, I've got that on DVD.

[Sister George]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:51am

It is.

Surname is George so the nickname became inevitable....

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 8:52am

Need to find some time to watch you again. :)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 9:06am

Goth - raising a voice of dissent is one thing, calling for punitive restriction is another. And how on Earth does Christianity and religion "have nothing to do with it" when the foundation of their plan lies in calling on police "to prosecute a theater company for blasphemy"?

And as for my own level of tolerance, I have made it quite clear in this forum that even though I don't believe in any religion myself, I have no issue with those who do - but I DO have a most SERIOUS issue with those who want to use their religion to legislate morality.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 9:45am

hey, c'mon, now this is progress. if it was a play about a gay drunken muhammed, they'd just blow up the theatre, issues fatwas calling for the death of everyone involved and be done with it. i think it's commendable that these citizens recognize the rule of law and are trying to subvert it with peaceful protest rather than violence.

i think it's a futile and pointless protest myself, but hey, different strokes for different folks. all it will succeed in doing is raising awareness about the show which prior to their vocalizing probably would have opened and closed in relative obscurity. ahhh, them crazy christians, the best word of mouth blasphemy can buy!

[amasis]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 9:56am

Papa, on one hand I want to protest the broad brush with which you're painting the muslims; on the other hand some lunatics did do this when Salman Rushdie published his novel. But those people do not represent all muslims just as this group don't represent all Christians. I've decided not to be part of an organized religion myself, so I'll just reiterate my first point: Sure, these people use religion as an excuse, but the common attribute is bigotry. Updated On: 12/21/04 at 09:56 AM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:22am

nah, i'm painting fanatics. ours protest, theirs behead. it's progress.

for the most part christians and muslims and jews and hindus and heck most all religions are peaceful at this point in their evolution. most all have their irratiional elements, though. i'm just pointing out that christians fanatics at this point in time are generally more peaceful about showing their anger towards perceived slights to their religion than are some other religions' fanatics.

[amasis]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:59am

Yeah, well, some of yours kill, too - just maybe not in your part of the world, but I get the point .

[Plum]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:03pm

If people were protesting a play about war in Iraq, this thread wouldn't even exist. Please look at your own level of tolerance before you go accusing other people.

Holy crap. For once, I agree with part of one of your posts, Goth. Must be all that holiday spirit in the air.

This isn't really true of the posters I know on this thread, but a lot of people here (and people on the left in general) could learn a little respect and tolerance for Christianity and religion in general. If you want respect, it has to go both ways.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:17pm

It's interesting that there is no mention of the production of Corpus Christi that was NOT protested at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1999. At that time, the production was actually well-received in the Scottish city.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:21pm

Yes, Christians are much more peaceful. They just vote their bigotries into law, rather than murder people.

That's MUCH better.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:24pm

Wow, way to generalize. Funny enough, even your sarcasm is wrong.

[Sister George]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:36pm

Actually there were protests at the Edinburgh Festival production of Corpus Christi.

They did however have very well designed protest placards and seem to be held by rather dis-interested students which did raise suspicions.

When the production subsequently transferred to London there was more protests and some fools praying for my soul as I entered the theatre.

Respect for religion...

Once again I'll ask how many wars has the theatre started and how many deaths does religion have on it's supposed conscience.

I'm sick of tolerating the intolerant.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:39pm

How strange. I had a friend who was with the production in Edinburgh and said they didn't have any problems. When I was there, I didn't remember anything going on.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:40pm

Well there you go again. You're conflating religion with intolerance, which is complete bull****.

On my most religious days, I'm the world's least observant Jew. And trust me, coming from Israel, I know plenty about religious intolerance. But having faith doesn't magically turn you into some kind of rabid bigot. To assume otherwise is a form of bigotry in itself. Updated On: 12/21/04 at 12:40 PM

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:46pm

I wasn't being sarcastic.

The bigoted legislation against gay marriage was passed by people who didn't want gays getting married because 'god told them it was sinful.'

Prove me wrong.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:49pm

No, I meant the "not murdering people" part. But I still contend you're voer-generalizing when you just say "Christians." They're bigots who happen to be Christian. Go to Israel and the bigots busy legislating will be Jewish. Go to other countries and they'll be Hindu or Muslim. Or even secularist. Christianity isn't a religion that lends itself to bigotry in some special way any more than Islam is a religion that promotes violence in some exceptional way. Updated On: 12/21/04 at 12:49 PM

[Sister George]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:49pm

To top it all, national critics on opening night had to battle through an 80-strong banner-waving demonstration led by Pastor Jack Glass, a real-life fire and brimstone preacher from Glasgow, wearing a crown of thorns and denouncing the company at the top of his lungs for "crucifying" his Lord for a second time.

From http://www.birdsandbees.co.uk/kwpr/prexample.shtml about the first nightof corpus Christi in Edinburgh.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 12:59pm

the bigoted legislation against gay marriage, the federal defense of marriage act was signed into law by the bigot in chief at the time, a democrat, bubba c.